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Topic: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before (Read 30488 times)

Yeah, but there'd be no reason to assume it's a nitrogen/oxygen environment. I agree with the general sentiment here, I think this planet would constitute an incredibly hostile environment to any foreign pathogen.

High Energy Physics News: LHCb analysis confirms four-quarks bound state Z(4430). The Standard Model only presently accounts for two-quarks (mesons) and three-quarks (baryons, of which we are entirely made of) states.

I love that there is an area of classical physics that is still so poorly understood. Also, I am pleasantly surprised to find a lengthy article on the subject on a relatively popular website. The subject is fluid dynamics, specifically turbulence and its measure, the Reynolds number.

Yeah, it is a bit bizzare at times, but reading it finally gave me an intuitive feel for what Reynolds number was besides some abstract measure of turbulence.

At the end, there is a reference to a publication by Reynolds called The Sub-mechanics of the Universe. The author/speaker says "[Reynolds] published a very long paper on the details of the sub mechanical universe , and he had a complete theory which involved small particles of diameter 10^{-18} cm. It gets very nutty from there on."

High Energy Physics News: LHCb analysis confirms four-quarks bound state Z(4430). The Standard Model only presently accounts for two-quarks (mesons) and three-quarks (baryons, of which we are entirely made of) states.

That's pretty big news.

Meanwhile somewhere in Russia, a guy decided it's a good idea to cool your house down with frozen carbon dioxide.

Worlds darkest material created by UK scientists. It only reflects 0.04% of light negating the ability to discern contours. The man in the video states that if a woman wears a black dress of this material she would like a 2D cutout. Pretty cool.

Well I did to see how long it would take me to be banned. Only took 28 posts, and that was with me pretending to be a god-loving, church going, white republican gun lover. I even made my username "H8Libs". I got banned the second I spoke in favor of evolution.

That reminds me of an AMAZING episode of Macgyver, called "Trumbo's World", where Macgyver has to fight an army of killer ants that can kill and eat people very quickly. The episode is basically stock footage of ants mixed with people screaming. I'd highly recommend it.